It is the goal of DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services to assist nonprofit organizations with competitively applying, receiving, and managing grant funding to best serve our clients and have a significant impact in their communities.

Our team will search foundation and government grant opportunities to find the best fit for your organization based on your organization’s mission and programs. Our team will help draft your grant calendar and grant strategy.

Our team will write grant applications tailored to each grant maker. Through our editing services we provide grant reviews and critiques to assist your staff in strengthening proposals and chances for success.

Three of our lead writers will serve as your mock review team prior to finalizing the application for submission. You will receive critical feedback to increase the competitiveness of your application.

Agile in Nonprofits strives to support nonprofit organizations with an emphasis on grant seeking organizations, that are looking to achieve greater impacts in their communities faster than they ever have before.

Current Grant Opportunities

Each week, our team spends hours researching the latest private foundation, and state and federal government foundation opportunities, in order to provide our clients with the most up-to-date research and forecast for their grant calendar, as part of their proactive grant seeking strategy.

Opiod Family Support Program (Deadline: 11/04/19)

The purpose of this program is to enhance and expand behavioral health-related paraprofessionals’ knowledge, skills, and expertise to work as part of an integrated, interprofessional team in a high need and high demand area to support children whose parents are impacted by opioid use disorders (OUD) and other substance use disorders (SUD), as well as their family members who are in guardianship roles.

Museums Empowered (Deadline: 11/15/19)

The Museums Empowered: Professional Development Opportunities for Museum Staff is a special MFA initiative with the goal of strengthening the ability of an individual museum to serve its public through professional development activities that cross-cut various departments to generate systemic change within the museum.

NEA Sound Health Network, FY2020 (Deadline: 11/19/19)

The Sound Health program seeks to expand public understanding of the connections between music and wellness: how music is processed by the brain, how music can impact development and learning, and the therapeutic use of music for specific health conditions.

Rural Health Network Development Program (Deadline 11/25/19)

The purpose of this program is to support integrated rural health care networks that have combined the functions of the entities participating in the network, including skilled and experienced staff and a high functioning network board, in order to address the health care needs of the targeted rural community.

The purpose of the Network Planning program is to assist in the development of an integrated health care network, specifically with network participants who do not have a history of formal collaborative efforts. Network Planning goals are: (i) to achieve efficiencies; (ii) to expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of essential health care services; and (iii) to strengthen the rural health care system as a whole.

The National Geographic Society seeks to support participatory science through the development or innovative use of data-driven, technology-powered tools that will increase the understanding, preservation, and protection of our planet.

Foundation for the Mid South – General (Deadline: Rolling)

The Foundation for the Mid South supports efforts that create high-quality education, initiatives that encourage physical and mental health, resources that promote financial security and solutions that enable communities in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi to grow and prosper.

Are you a grantmaker looking to have your funding opportunity listed? Please contact our team with the details of your funding opportunity and due date so it can be published the following Monday.

Don't Let Grants Stress You Out Let Us Help

Grants should not be stressful. Grants are not free or easy money, but the writing, implementation, and reporting of them does not need to be stressful. Our team is here to help ensure that grants are meaningful support for your organization, not a source of stress.

Diane H. Leonard, GPC, CSPO, CSM is a Grant Professional Certified (GPC) and Approved Trainer of the Grant Professionals Association. Diane is also a Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner through Scrum Alliance, Inc.

Since 2006, Diane and her team have secured more than $61.2 million dollars in competitive grant awards for the clients of DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services. She is an active member of the Grant Professionals Association. She is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, with a Bachelor’s of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations.

When not working with her team on grant applications for clients, Diane can be found in the 1000 Islands, out for a run, or drinking a strong cup of coffee.

Julie Boll, M.Ed., GPC

Julie Boll, M.Ed., GPC is the founder of Julie Boll Consulting, which provides grant writing and strategic planning support to nonprofits. Julie serves as a Grant Consultant for DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services. Over the course of her career, Boll has secured more than $9.4 M in competitive grants from foundation, state and federal funders. Boll served as the Director of Grants for Quincy University, and in this role secured more than $6.2 M in competitive grants including the university's first National Science Foundation grant in over 25 years and a $2.25 million US Department of Education Strengthening Institutions grant. Julie has more than 17 years experience in the nonprofit sector, serving in marketing, public relations and grant development roles. Julie is a member of the programming committee of the St. Louis Grant Professionals Association board, serves on the board of the West Central Illinois Center for Independent Living Center, and is a guest reviewer for the Quincy United Way Resource Allocation team. Julie holds a Bachelor's Degree in Public Relations and Masters Degree in Education, both from Quincy University. She is Grant Professional Certified (GPC) by the Grant Professional Certification Institute (GPCI) and is a GPA Approved Trainer. Julie recently co-authored a peer reviewed journal article titled, “Measuring Up: Measuring Up: A Review of Current Grant Professional Performance Metrics” in the Nov 2018 edition of the Grant Professionals Association Journal.

Amy Bonn

Amy has worked with and for nonprofits for over 20 years as a practitioner, researcher and consultant. She oversees the creative direction at Finch Network as well as business development.
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Amy has worked with local, regional and national organizations including the National Alliance to End Homelessness, Rural Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the Corporation for National and Community Service and United Way of Tompkins County. She specializes in program planning, fund development and qualitative research. Notable projects include a fellowship she completed for the Corporation for National Service where she conducted an evaluation of program sustainability of AmeriCorps*VISTA projects, coordinating an allocation process that invested $1.3 million dollars annually to health and human service nonprofits in Tompkins County and leading the qualitative research portion for two evaluations conducted for City Harvest.
Amy has a strong commitment to her own community and volunteers with her local Foster Care program, Plattsburgh Community Garden and in Plattsburgh City Schools.
Amy holds a B.A.in American Studies and a teaching certificate from the University of Rochester and a graduate degree in Community and Rural Development from Cornell University.

Julie Johnson

Julie enjoys contributing to projects that connect people, organizations, businesses, and communities.
Julie lives in Minnesota where she operates her grant consultancy jorjastone. All grant consultants have a unique story to tell about their path into this field. A compilation of skills from Julie’s employment, education, and experience have funneled together into this perfect profession for her. She has been working with grants since 1999. She launched her own grant consultancy on January 1, 2015. She’s a proud member of the Grants Professionals Association and the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.
Julie is a grants generalist. She works on grants that support nearly every type of activity in nearly every state in the United States. She has a long history of submitting successful grant applications.
In her community, she shares her knowledge about nonprofit organizations and grants. She has been a lead volunteer in publishing a book about the history of her town’s gorgeous public library and in initiating a community nonprofit fund for a food cooperative. For Julie, there is no better work than the good results of grant awards.

Jasmine Markanday, MBA

Jasmine is an experienced grant professional who specializes in federal grant readiness, grant budget-writing, grant management, and training solutions.
She assists clients with grant compliance based on 2 CFR 200 and Federal Administrative Regulations. She has assisted many organizations with successful indirect cost rate negotiations resulting in additional estimated overhead revenue of $300,000 plus. She received her Bachelor's in Business Administration with Accounting & Computer Information Systems for Emporia State University and her MBA with Healthcare Administration from MidAmerica Nazarene University.
She is a member of the Grants Professional Association and National Grants Management Association, along with also being a GPA approved trainer.

Ariella Nasuti J.D.

A Barnard College and University of Michigan Law School graduate, Ariella was privileged to be a senior executive at Columbia University, The New York Public Library, William Paterson University, and the Five College Consortium. She’s been responsible for the grant writing and stewardship of federal, state, corporate and private foundation grant funds totaling $50m. Her commercial real estate and leasing law practice included the structuring of bargain sales, CRTs, and planned giving instruments. Ariella owns Maine-based Ariella Nasuti Consulting, LLC and is a grant consultant for DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, LLC.

Jane Nelson

Jane Nelson is an experienced Information Technology professional and Project Manager. Her life-long passion for wanting to make a difference inspired her to leverage her project management and technical proficiencies to start a career in the grants industry. As the sole proprietor of JCN Grant Services, she provides consulting services to non-profit organizations on programs in the areas of Education, Healthcare, and Human Services.
Jane earned a BS in Mathematics from Cheyney University and a MS in Computer Science from Clark Atlanta University. She received her Project Management certificate from George Washington University.
Jane attained her Certified Grant Writer® credential from the American Grant Writers’ Association. She is a member of American Grant Writers’ Association and Grant Professionals Association.

Judy Riffle, Ed.D.

Dr. Judy Riffle is a former teacher, university mentor, and administrator with degrees in special education, Deaf education, and educational leadership. She has served as a Grant Professionals Association Southern Arizona chapter Treasurer, on the GPA Grant News Publications Subcommittee, and as a Grant Professionals Foundation Board member and Chair of the Marketing Committee. She currently serves as board Vice-President for the Green Valley Sahuarita Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Besides work, she loves traveling and spending time with her grandson.
Judy owns Santa Cruz Grants & Consulting, LLC and is a grant consultant for DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services. She has raised over $18 Million for nonprofits and schools.
You may follow her on Twitter at @uscdrj1 or contact her on LinkedIn.

Megan Shane

Megan Shane serves as the Marketing and Training Coordinator for our team at DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing. Megan has a passion for marketing with a background in business such as; administrative assistant, accounts receivable, and business manager. Megan has worked with large corporations such as Howard Hanna and small privately owned businesses such as Classic Island Cruises. She also volunteers in her small town of Clayton with groups like Rotary and TIERS. In her free time in the summers you can find her out on the river enjoying the boat and spending time with family, during the winters you’ll find her hibernating waiting for boating season to come again.

Nicole Sibilski, GPC

As a Certified Grant Professional, Nicole provides highly specialized grant writing, research, and training to nonprofits, government agencies, and businesses nationwide. Expertise includes funding for legal aid programs and their partners, as well as partnership creation and program development.
Services include state and federal grant (DOL, USDA, DOJ, NSF, and DOE) writing, foundation grant writing, new funder research and analysis, staff and board training, and needs assessment research. Total grant amount awarded: $20 million since 2013. Grant Professional Certified since 2016.
2016 Grant Professional Association Chapter President (TN-Nashville)
Grant Professional Foundation Board Member 2017-2020
Presenter at the 2018 GPA National Conference in Chicago, Illinois: "Safeguarding Your Grant Strategy During Economic Crisis"

Bethany Turner, GPC

Bethany Turner, GPC, is the owner and lead consultant of bmtconsulting. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications Studies from Ball State University, Bethany got her start in the grant profession as an AmeriCorps VISTA member in 2011. Since becoming a grant professional, Bethany has worked with many different organizations securing more than two million dollars in federal, state, and foundation funds. These grant monies have been awarded for disaster response and rebuilding, humanitarian aid, arts and culture, arts education, drama therapy, historic preservation, higher education, after-school youth programs, and youth mentoring programs. Bethany earned a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Administration from Western Kentucky University in 2015 and the Grant Professionals Certification credential from the Grant Professionals Certification Institute in 2016. She authors bmtconsulting’s Nonprofit Book Nook. Bethany loves reading, traveling (anywhere and everywhere), and cheering on The Ohio State Buckeyes.

Micki Vandeloo, GPC

Micki Vandeloo, GPC has over 15 years experience performing grant/incentive consulting services for clients in the manufacturing and technology communities, including trade associations, college and university technical/vocational programs, Manufacturing Extension Partnership Centers, and for manufacturers and early stage technology companies. Her Industrial Engineering and MBA degrees, as well as over 25 years experience in manufacturing, provide a sound technical foundation for her grant writing services. She has personally obtained over $60 million in grant funding for her clients. Micki published the book, “THE For-Profit Grant Writing Guide”, in 2014, is the Past Chair of the Grant Professionals Foundation Board and Past President of the St. Louis Grant Professionals Association Chapter.

testimonials

Writing

"It is a great pleasure to recommend Diane and her exceptional team at DH Leonard Consulting. With her firm's assistance, North Carolina New Schools was successful in securing a $20 million i3 scale up grant from the U.S. Department of Education. This was an incredibly complex and challenging proposal; with their help, what seemed impossible became possible. Her expertise, strategic and thoughtful approaches, great communication, and flexibility were tremendous assets in this process. They are adept with program development, proposal writing, budget development, logic models and much more. I highly recommend Diane and DH Leonard Consulting and am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with them."

Sylvia DuRant

Director, Grants Management North Carolina New Schools

Writing

"Diane, and her team at DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, are true specialists in helping organizations further their mission. Besides their critical research skills in finding the right grant to match the organization's mission, they achieve a substantial grant acquisition rate, in large part, due to their grant readiness strategy! If your organization is serious about securing grants, DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services is a must have."

Jackie Nagel

Business Coach, President at Synnovatia, Community Strategist at Eureka

Training

"Diane led a terrific custom webinar, "Grant Budgets that Tell a Story" for our Grant Professional of Lower Hudson members. The information presented was thorough and covered many different grant application budget formats and budget topics. Diane provided useful tips about how to design a budget that will lead to grant success. We especially liked Diane's references to actual organizations and how their budgets were constructed. Diane is a warm and engaging speaker and we would love to have her back again soon!"

Joanne Stewart, GPLH

Consultant, Goodworks Advisory Group, LLC

Writing

I have had the absolute pleasure of working with Diane onnumerous projects over the past seven years. She is an excellentgrant writer with the keen ability to capture exactly what fundersare looking for. She also has the eye for the smallest of details thatmakes sure all the i’s are dotted and the t’s crossed.

Marc Berke

Senior Director, Major Gifts, Forgotten Harvest

Training

"As someone who teaches part-time, I recognize a natural born instructor when I see one. Diane is such an amazing instructor--a gift that not many possess. She is very knowledgeable, welcomes questions ( seamlessly working them into her lessons) and prepares a flexible curriculum that allows her to switch to topics relevant to her audience/class. However, the best thing about Diane is her passion for her work and her very dynamic nature. Her energy and attitude are contagious and, she makes you think about grants differently. I have taken Basic and Intermediate courses with Diane and she has a consistent teaching style across courses, which I love. I hope to have another opportunity to work with Diane! I can't say enough good things about her. Thanks so much Diane for making me a better grant professional"

Writing

"Thanks to Diane's guidance and expertise as a consultant to Save The River over the past few years, the organization significantly increased the number of grants received in support of our programs. From providing valuable strategic advice for our annual planning to handling the nitty gritty of application details, Diane was a positive and knowledgeable partner as we pursued our goals of increasing annual grant funding. She has a strong ability to quickly grasp and articulate in writing the details of an organization's vision and programs and an eye for matching potential grant opportunities with the organization's program needs. Diane is also very organized and clear in her expectations for each project she pursues. Diane consistently went above and beyond my expectations each time I worked with her. I highly recommend her services"

Jennifer Caddick

Executive Director, Save the River

Writing

It is my great pleasure to serve as a reference for the DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, LLC and to enthusiastically recommend the company's outstanding expertise with editing and grant writing services. In all respects, including knowledge, expertise in guiding the grant writing process from an early phase to completion, integrity, and commitment to her client's success, I can highly recommend the company to you - and am confident the staff, led by Diane H. Leonard, GPC will be an ideal partner in the collaborative process of grant writing.